Charles Franklin

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but that's not what they're talking about to answer you directly they're they are talking about iran and it's very different uh this came up yesterday i went to the whist politics polling briefing it was actually held at michael best in in madison ken goldstein and Charles Franklin were the two presenters, and they talked about the differences between this cycle and 2006.

You might remember George W. Bush was in the White House in 2006.

We had a war with Iran, not Iraq, or with Iraq at that time.

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but that's not what they're talking about to answer you directly they're they are talking about iran and it's very different uh this came up yesterday i went to the whist politics polling briefing it was actually held at michael best in in madison ken goldstein and Charles Franklin were the two presenters, and they talked about the differences between this cycle and 2006.

You might remember George W. Bush was in the White House in 2006.

We had a war with Iran, not Iraq, or with Iraq at that time.

I mentioned that little nugget in the MU Law School poll.

I know you talked to Charles Franklin this week as well.

Somewhat surprisingly, I think it was 20% had not heard about the plane crash with Tom Tiffany.

And I said, look, I get it.

It's more of control of Congress.

And I think as you just mentioned, some of these red states, that's where you're going to see the White House focus over these final 30 days.

Real quick, I know you had Charles Franklin on the show.

Did they do any more polling before the election? They have one more poll coming out at the end of the

Okay.

So here's how the math works based on the Marquette poll, which is a very good poll of, uh, Wisconsin and elsewhere, Charles Franklin's pollster, uh, conducted September 16th through 23rd among 843 registered voters, 692 likely voters.

Tiffany's winning 97% of the likely voters who give Trump a positive job rating.

According to Charles Franklin, Crowley, David Crowley, the Democrat, is getting 2% of the vote.

No, uh, yeah, Trump voters.

On top of that, Tiffany's winning 11% of voters who give Trump a negative rating.

I can share a few of them here today.

But after Charles Franklin said they do these get-to-know formats, it's very informal.

It's really, you know, just kind of like...

A background in walking through your career.

73% of voters say the Iran war has not been worth the cost.

70% of voters are opposed to the tariffs on imported goods from Canada.

And then this was a funny moment from the, uh, From the Marquette poll, Charles Franklin walks through the presentation slides about the results of all of these things.

And he brings up, how do we think how do you how do we think we're going to get those five thousand dollar checks from the Trump dividend or however we call it? And the whole room bursts out laughing because it's such an absurd thing that.

We kind of have to guess, but it could have something to do with a lot of these negative ads that we're seeing from Tiffany and Republicans, third-party groups, et cetera, with regard to Tiffany's favorability ratings.

What's interesting about that shift for Crowley is Charles Franklin was talking about how it's actually – some Republicans who were undecided had kind of come home to the Republican Party from undecided.

And whereas some of the independent likely voters, they went from undecided, or I'm sorry, they went from Crowley to undecided.

So there's some movement there.

If your side is winning with independent voters, you're much more likely to win.

So those are the numbers to really pay attention to.

Like Rich said, with Charles Franklin indicating that it was actually Republicans that were more solidified on Tom Tiffany.

then that's not as big of a loss for Crowley, although every politician would love to see their favorability numbers in the positive.